seriously a passport opposition gets the backing of gulf monotheists but the arab league refuses to recognize it as the sole voice of syria. meanwhile syria's neighbors are increasingly being drawn into the violent conflict with israel launching cross border telling lebanon turning into a sectarian power to. block the scowl surrounding former cia chief david petraeus expands beyond an extramarital affair with the u.s. commander in afghanistan also now under investigation over thousands of e-mails to a woman linked to the case. and germany's bit to show support for portugal sincerity drive is met with public outrage as people's patience with painful cuts tax hikes runs out.

the start to coming to live from moscow with me we're in a joshua the arab league has hailed the formation of syria's new rebel coalition but stopped short of recognizing the group as the sole judgment voice of the syrian people leaders of syria's exiled opposition beset by mutual suspicion and infighting formed a new blog on sunday and are now seeking full international backing his middle east correspondent policy year takes up a story. the six gulf states have formally recognized the new syrian coalition as the official representative of the syrian people and the foreign minister of qatar has said that this recognition will remove obstacles that will ultimately be able to secure arms for syrian rebels the coalition does look set to

set up a so-called government in exile if indeed this happens this will have the backing of waste and as well as arab states there are fears that this could set up a libya style scenario what we saw in libya was opposition fighters sitting themselves up as an alternative government that got the backing of the international community and ultimately led to nato airstrikes and foreign intervention so there are concerns that that might happen here in syria there was also a number question about just how feasible this opposition group is really we're looking at a patchwork of various organizations here it is made up of the rebel fighters as well as dissidents and people from all backgrounds and political affiliations it has been marred by bickering over the past few weeks and months indeed this is an organization that does not have internal unity what is important is that the arab league that is no should be one of the most important bodies in the arab world has his attention welcomed this new coalition it does say that it is

a primary to negotiate it but it has not gone as far as to say that it is the legitimate representative of the syrian people israel says its army has fired on positions in syria and scored direct hits in response to errant cross border fire the repeated confrontation is fueling fears that israel could be dragged into the syrian conflict as fighting as already spilled over into turkey and lebanon are often a visit to the scene of fierce clashes between lebanese sick tearing groups divided over which side they support in the bloody syrian standoff. they share a determination to fight to the death but this isn't syria it's lebanon the conflict has crept across the border leading to death and destruction here in tripoli we're standing here you can see the almost complete destruction of a home this is literally the front line of the. neighborhood in tripoli right across the street out the window that's the neighborhood where the largely sunni

community has been has been clashing with the largely allawi community that is based here it's actually not very safe for us to stand here we've been told by the owner of this apartment that they're still taking casualties in the fighting could really flare out at any moment out of range of the snipers we speak to the homeowner and allawi militia man the misery has only hardened his resolve to fight against neighbors who he says pose a mortal threat. these people have one objective and that is to have an islamic emirate in the north and militia organizations like hezbollah we won't give up arms as long as thought exists. this is been a flashpoint for years a sunni stronghold next door to an alawite community but strife in syria has unleashed new sectarian tensions leading to the worst fighting since lebanon's civil war but this is the spokesperson for the arab democratic party which has its own loyal militia here in. the. regime falls that this area will turn into

a dangerous product for this is what we're trying to avoid. i asked him whether disarming might be an option to avoid more bloodshed. we're not afraid while we were filming the lebanese army was overseeing a shaky cease fire but the sandbags are still out awaiting the next battle we're in the neighborhood as you can see behind me that is the area where the gunfire was coming down here people have been killed on both sides of this. this is one of the fighting positions. the street. reacher has a sunni militia here in tripoli as bubble to ben a slum to have you with these guns. showing off his guns he says he's ready to use them again at a moment's notice. we are ready to defend ourselves and to fight for. sheikh mansour he accuses the syrian government of fermenting violence against the sunni's

and that's why he says support for the uprising goes far beyond empathy. or systems to the free syrian army would do it within our capabilities doesn't mean if it is possible to give that with all its done with. however the syrian war plays out it's clear that the outcome will have repercussions far beyond its borders in tripoli the battle lines have been drawn and neither side seems willing to back down. r.t. tripoli lebanon. well you can find out more about the potential fallout from the syrian conflict by logging on to r.t. dot com and there you also find the story of a syrian actor of meyer by the millions in the arab world but last abuse made him a target for syrian rebels that as opposition fighters are increasingly accused of killing civilians simply for their allegiance to the government. the fallout from cia director david petraeus his resignation continuous well the

man who replaced him as u.s. commander in afghanistan general john allen now embroiled in the scandal the trail stood down last friday after admitting to an extramarital affair the pentagon now claims general allen has been exchanging inappropriate e-mails with jill kelley the woman whose initial contact with the f.b.i. allowed to buttress his downfall concerns are also mounting that what first appeared to be a personal matter deeper of locations including security leaks after all it will cover up more from our washington correspondent. paula broadwell general petraeus is. biographer slosh mistress gave a speech last month and in that speech she revealed details about the bin ghazi attack that were at that time unknown to the public she gave the speech at the end of october fifth now when everybody knows that she had an affair with a general many are guessing whether those details that she revealed in her speech were part of their pillow talk take a listen i don't know if

a lot of you heard this but d.c. and extend actually had taken a couple of libyan militia members prisoner and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back so that it's still being vetted the challenging thing for general to translate is that in his new position he's not allowed to communicate with the press by the way the cia adamantly denies the allegations that they held prisoners at the consulate in benghazi and nobody at that point heard anything about the cia holding prisoners in benghazi but everybody knew about the access that paula broadwell had to the general because she was his biographer now it turns out that she had an even greater access to the general when general petraeus was signed he cited his own extremely poor judgment and some are wondering whether their poor judgment was just about the affair or it could also be about having shared more with his mistress than just pleasant moments together there's another twist to this story apparently paula broadwell was not the kind to keep things to herself the f.b.i. were investigating her allegedly caressing the e-mail sent to another woman who

also happens to know general petraeus and as officials here are saying that's how they found out about the affair general petraeus was idolised the public had to go through a similar trauma if you will with the other again and then general who was also idolized in many ways general stanley mcchrystal he fell from grace and resigned when the rolling stone magazine quoted him saying unflattering things about the administration the media here of course have seen all over the tree of scandals when they learned that there was another woman involved it got them spinning all over again with her discussions about. how the level of testosterone affects a man's judgment of all kinds of things they savored every detail of this story and one thing that was actually said to watch is that what the agency and i mean the cia is actually doing doesn't get that much coverage things like how they pick the targets for this targeted assassination program things that the public should want to know if the actual security and it's secret but when it comes to the director's

bedroom all of a sudden everybody wants to know and the media are there to question every detail of the affair as far as let's say collateral damage from cia drone strikes not as interesting. meanwhile the u.s. congress is demanding answers and they want to know why they weren't notified of an inquiry into such a high profile figure michael maloof a former pentagon official says the timing of the revelations and the initial secrecy could be politically motivated at least the attorney general should have been informed he works after all the f.b.i. works for him they report directly to him and certainly the director of national intelligence should have been informed not on the evening of the election but should have been informed almost immediately when they came across some very incriminating information it's been my experience that when something like this occurs the person who's the target is suspended from clearances is told to take

thirty days off and while they investigate further and the bosses are informed immediately the fact that this was did not occur in patrice's case and it occurred almost immediately after he became the cia director i think smells of political intrigue and the fact that. this wasn't even reported for months. to the higher levels is in itself a scandal it was probably a political decision to protect the president. week after the u.s. presidential election at it appears the united states are not that united was taxes and nine hundred other us states filing petitions and considering cessation from the country had to argue dot com where we've got all the details. of online immoral business google starbucks and amazon face harsh rhetoric from british companies over paying just a tiny percentage of tax while gaining millions from the u.k.

market. while we back with more news in just a few minutes stay with us. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is doctors landed near brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snow a world of us as a boy here suffering on the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread lana doesn't like taking her baby away

from home but she's been before and degrees to go that's the usual practice with those who live in the to draw the keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native nets reindeer herders out in the tundra it can take many hours to reach the nearest village so our medical problems simply fixed here in the tent that. they used to be but now we can go to civilize places so we call for emergency help. back at hospital other patients helped by the air ambulance are being treated the service costs forty million dollars a year to run and there's been controversy with some claiming that locals exaggerate or make up health problems and use the helicopters as a free taxi service accusations landed near firmly dismisses your brother is not true usually the calls are perfectly justified sometimes we even reproach locals

for waiting too long before calling us he's been working as a doctor now for forty three years but vladimir is confident the diva now after he retires his helicopter doctors will remain a lifeline to the peoples of the russian far north. please speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the r.p. interviews intriguing story to tell you. in trying.

to find out more visit our big. welcome back you're watching r.t. a german chancellor angela merkel received a hostile welcome in portugal as hundreds of angry protesters greeted her in lisbon they blame the chancellor for their country's a sturdy drive resulting in painful cuts and tax rises and as i see sarah ferguson reports many wonder why go is following a pass which is yet to reap rewards elsewhere. these measures have been killing is due to give us no future it's only for cattle and employment and misery so many

people are becoming desperate and it's almost like a visceral reaction a visceral reaction to these measures people that are getting angrier and angrier angela merkel says it supports the goal may have been bent as a sign of support for this seemed only to serve to highlight the. protestors message loud and clear way testers standing off against the riot police become very familiar protest gatherings in europe but perhaps not so familiar that portugal here until recently have been much more tolerant of the strict austerity measures that have been imposed on them but as you can see here portugal's patience is really running out with record levels of unemployment now at fifteen percent and the country about and tourists third year of recession is becoming apparent that the country persons had hate could be a southern european success story it's now struggling to survive we talk about cuts

to jobs we talk about the search measures what does it mean to be living through that right now in portugal it means they don't see any future for my child we are getting angry because the government don't care. about people put two goals not alone of course these stories of hardship are echoed all across the usa in brussels finance ministers and desperately trying to come up with a way to pull greece back from the brink of bankruptcy with athens having just approved yet another round of cuts this is the coolest of the speech the capital the greek political class like the rest of the year. in a sense i think chris is a. prisoner of the you're not you're watching this on. ology exert such a power over people that they are prepared to do things which by any rational measure

obviously counterproductive in order to preserve the european project the euro particular they are determined to do everything to keep the single currency checked even to destroy their own country and with greece's economic straits people are questioning just why portugal must follow the same rates the same many economists say is deemed to end in failure. there's been. another indebted state italy at least twenty people have been injured in fierce clashes over unemployment violence police and demonstrators broke out in naples with more than a thousand people taking to the streets to voice their outrage at rising unemployment figures the euro zone's third biggest economy has been hit hard by the debt crisis now italian authorities are pointing the finger at ratings agencies for sending the economy into chaos prosecutors are seeking trials for

a number of officials from standard and poor's and fitch analysts power for us as far as are often meddling where it should. be one thing which is very much public and. therefore it could be. some kind of. free. market. as bankers are also taking the flak for europe's economic woes makes geyser and stacy herbert reveal how some in charge were never destined for a career in finance a full program is coming up later today. this is a female banker in spain the bank key a banker who didn't understand anything

a former director of the banking giant whose implosion for spain to seek one hundred billion euro bank bailout has admitted she doesn't know anything about finance and she said in testimony before criminal court in madrid that she had qualifications and chemistry just like she didn't know anything about banking so don't sue. is this the only industry in the world that rewards. cation of the stupid or you or the higher up your. organization. millions of americans are playing by dats they can barely afford to pay back by the help could be on the way from an unlikely source activists from the occupy movement are planning to buy up the debts from creditors and just write them off. as the details haters must have been hoping that occupy wall street has fallen off the

face of the earth or at least the face of the national arena this is not been the case at all for months now this strike debt project has been in the works occupy wall street has been trying to come up with a system where they can do what they can their share of the action to try to help so many americans who are just completely burdened by debt and what it entails is a buying distressed debt for pennies on the dollar and basically instead of harassing. people in debt. debt buyers and debt collectors occupy wall street just goes into volatile as this debt wipes it out completely and we caught up with the former wall street employee and now occupy wall street activists a lot. goldstein and she broke it down for us take a listen normally like if you default on the loan there's all these collections agencies that can buy your debt and then they harass you harass you harass you and if you like three percent of the people they get the money from the way they do ok because they buy the debt for pennies on the dollar so what we're doing is we're

trying to buy a million dollars worth of debt which only cost fifty thousand dollars because it's pennies on the dollar and abolish it and so people will get a phone call saying you know instead of getting a phone call from a collections agency they'll get one phone call saying hey occupy wall street bought your debt it's been abolished the idea behind strike they say that fifty thousand dollars could abolish a million dollars in debt but it's small donations that they're really counting on twenty five dollars five hundred dollars one hundred dollars can abolish two thousand and it's important that we've seen the government of the united states bail out corporations with this particular idea occupy wall street is hoping that this is a bailout of the people by the people and they're hoping that this will start some sort of movement to really where people try to help themselves from the bottom up and just throughout the country. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world israel has carried out fresh air strikes in gaza comes in response to rockets launched by palestinian militants on

saturday which injured four israeli soldiers patrolling the gaza border tel aviv or swat of with tank fire and challis killing six palestinians four of them civilians and one thing at least forty militants have reportedly indicated they were ready for a truce although there's been no official response from israel. radical muslim cleric abu qatada has won his appeal against extradition from the u.k. to jordan where he would face terrorism charges the jaws of hell the freeing of the suspected al qaeda operative after lawyers claimed he wouldn't get a fair trial in georgia the home secretary's already criticized the tribunals decision having a further appeal released on strict bail conditions which could cost the british taxpayer almost eight million dollars a year to supervise. all right coming out after a short break it's our interview show spotlight.

to mean this is true even for specialists skin produces several sounds it comes to the unions the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's with roots singing originates from the news believe not only animals but also around in reverse and even stones of souls imitating the sounds they believe can capture the power of nature.

there are special instruments that accompany the singing give gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says it wants to leave to poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the course was revived as an instrument. that was it of so pitiful is because the spirit of the horse came to his dream and said make an instrument from the tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember me make an engraving of my head of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody on these human is called. to fly as one of the most famous groups in the republic their next goal is to tour peru and they say for you are peons it's difficult to pick up and sing so i asked

them to teach me and see if i can do it. chair of the senate work. chair oh you shared water that was sure they can come up to you and was you think gang are all. but now it is part of the song and not the actual throat singing which i wouldn't even dare try to make it. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this i thought so until i met small she looks like it to vini and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most s. to modern mindset that she planned from two hundred years ago until sappy here she's not planning a professional singing career but she keeps practicing just because it's become

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. hello again and welcome to the spotlight they intend to show on our take on our novel and today my guest on the program is set again at approx. one barack obama won the election in two thousand and eight his promised check i know just for his domestic policy but in terms of relations with moscow he really switched change to reset which is something change means process work taking risks while the

reset means an intention to take a fresh start and nothing more and at this exact positive intention the parties are still standing up to having made a few steps toward each other four years ago so will there be any change at last we see the newly signed start treaty and the visa agreement work in the coming four years. with one of the most competent foreign policy experts russian deputy foreign minister to get up. to get a pope is probably one of the most recognized russian diplomats you frequently appears in the international media commenting on russian american relations and arms control and particularly on the iranian nuclear program ripoff came to foreign ministry straight from college during thirty years of service he worked on different positions at home and in the russian embassy in washington d.c. the deputy foreign minister is known as calm and very energetic and hard.